when i cut and paste from notepad, wtf
today was great for the most part. the dogs especially enjoyed the nice weather and then i went to feed my neighbor's horses. it's been my mian source of income since the property where the flea market was got sold to developers for millions of dollars. still doing the occasional flea market shopping and we're gonna have some street fairs to set up in spring. i can't wait for the bel air area community yard sales. always clean up if you get out early enough.
when i returned this morning i watched an epsiode of the sarah silverman program that i downloaded last night; i haven't seen much of season 2. "i may like abortion but at least i'm 'not a bore, sonnnnn'. I really used to hate puns, especially bad ones but Isaac Asimov and Stephan Pastis (artist of Pearls Before Swine) forced me to reconsider. Now i especially love the bad ones...sarah's i'd actually rate around the middle. another episode comes to mind...'I'm just an ass, and you're a gene-ass'. I'm petty sure she just comes up with these while she's high and running her mouth.
my neighbor parked a grey "short bus" out on his lawn a few weeks ago. it has all but two seats removed and carpet layed down and i wanted to see if i could get it for a treehouse addition but i looked at it today and he had written a price on it, $5000. I was hoping it was broken down and i could jsut pay a couple hundred and pull it down here with the tractor. It would be second best to a boxcar addition, but a caboose would beat them all.
today i finished my reading my hundredth book since march 3, 2007. i became
determined to read 100 books in a year after reading that stephen king reads
about 80 books a year even tho he spends a lot of time writing books as well.
some days i read for about ten hours and other days half an hour and with the
exception of a few boring books(due to the style of writing, not content) it
remained enjoyable. i think it was about 50% novels(mostly sci-fi, crime, and
war), 10% history, 10% sociology, 20%science, and 20% autobiography/biography.
In order not to cheat i read at a normal pace to properly comprehend the
story...usually i was in 5 different books at once so that i could space
beginning and ending a book over at least a week...finishing a book in 2 days
just seems like you're missing out on it sinking in, but some books are so
compelling it's inevitable. Most of the books were at least 200 pages and some
were over 800, i tried not to let too many short ones in. i wrote the page
numbers down but i'll probably never get around to adding them although im
curious.i still have a lot of books in my collection i haven't read and i plan
to order some specific ones off half.com soon. it's been a long winter of
sitting in the corner of the treehouse, drinking coffee, and reading and now
it's about time to sit on the balcony of the treehouse, drink coffee, and read.
my camera is taking really crummy washed out pics. the phone camera is slightly
better but i need a memory card for it to get the pics off it to my comp.
here's
what the new islands in the pond looked like last week, the water has finally
risen near it's full level again. So far, so good though one section of stone
wall sunk a bit. It's interlocked enough that it might not matter. At least it
seems to have withstood the expansions and recessions of ice.
the water is starting to clear up and maybe it's too deep to see to the bottom
in some places. Besides constructing the islands I'd estimate i carted about
200 wheel barrows full of dirt to build up the rear embankment. Some of the
dirt was full of roots which allowed me to stack it almost like cinder blocks
and i was able to make the island edges pretty steep even on the one without
stone around it. i think i might have to wear hip waders so i can get out there
to string trim it or i might just use another plank. The "trees" are just
broken branches from larger trees i put there for birds to land on when they go
to the bird feeder (red). I briefly toyed with the idea of planting a tree out
there but that would jsut be more leaves falling in the water.
favorite books of the past year(in no particular order):
Running With Scissors - Augusten Burrows
The Corner- David Simon, Edward Burns
The Worthing Saga - Orson Scott Card
Stiff - Mary Roach
The Bonfire of the Vanities- Tom Wolfe
A Man In Full - Tom Wolfe
How To Talk To A Liberal - Ann Coultier
Slander - Ann Coultier
Cosmos - Carl Sagan
A Short History Of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
E=Mc2-David Bodanis
Bringing Down The House - Ben Mezrich
Positively Fifth Street - James McManus
Tally's Corner - Elliot Liebow
Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
Nightmares & Dreamscapes - Stephen King
On Writing - Stephen King
Hearts In Atlantis - Stephen King
The Brethren - John Grisham
The King of Torts - John Grisham
Let My People Go Surfing - Yvon Choinard
Punk's War - Ward Caroll
Masterpieces - Orson Scott Card, editor
St. Dale - Karen McCrumb
The 158 Pound Marriage - John Irving
The Cider House Rules - John Irving
Rock This! - Chris Rock
Schindler's List - Thomas Keneally
super nintendo, you're my new girlfriend
lucubration-laborious work, study, thought, etc., esp. at night.
when i returned this morning i watched an epsiode of the sarah silverman program that i downloaded last night; i haven't seen much of season 2. "i may like abortion but at least i'm 'not a bore, sonnnnn'. I really used to hate puns, especially bad ones but Isaac Asimov and Stephan Pastis (artist of Pearls Before Swine) forced me to reconsider. Now i especially love the bad ones...sarah's i'd actually rate around the middle. another episode comes to mind...'I'm just an ass, and you're a gene-ass'. I'm petty sure she just comes up with these while she's high and running her mouth.
my neighbor parked a grey "short bus" out on his lawn a few weeks ago. it has all but two seats removed and carpet layed down and i wanted to see if i could get it for a treehouse addition but i looked at it today and he had written a price on it, $5000. I was hoping it was broken down and i could jsut pay a couple hundred and pull it down here with the tractor. It would be second best to a boxcar addition, but a caboose would beat them all.
today i finished my reading my hundredth book since march 3, 2007. i became
determined to read 100 books in a year after reading that stephen king reads
about 80 books a year even tho he spends a lot of time writing books as well.
some days i read for about ten hours and other days half an hour and with the
exception of a few boring books(due to the style of writing, not content) it
remained enjoyable. i think it was about 50% novels(mostly sci-fi, crime, and
war), 10% history, 10% sociology, 20%science, and 20% autobiography/biography.
In order not to cheat i read at a normal pace to properly comprehend the
story...usually i was in 5 different books at once so that i could space
beginning and ending a book over at least a week...finishing a book in 2 days
just seems like you're missing out on it sinking in, but some books are so
compelling it's inevitable. Most of the books were at least 200 pages and some
were over 800, i tried not to let too many short ones in. i wrote the page
numbers down but i'll probably never get around to adding them although im
curious.i still have a lot of books in my collection i haven't read and i plan
to order some specific ones off half.com soon. it's been a long winter of
sitting in the corner of the treehouse, drinking coffee, and reading and now
it's about time to sit on the balcony of the treehouse, drink coffee, and read.
my camera is taking really crummy washed out pics. the phone camera is slightly
better but i need a memory card for it to get the pics off it to my comp.
here's
what the new islands in the pond looked like last week, the water has finally
risen near it's full level again. So far, so good though one section of stone
wall sunk a bit. It's interlocked enough that it might not matter. At least it
seems to have withstood the expansions and recessions of ice.
the water is starting to clear up and maybe it's too deep to see to the bottom
in some places. Besides constructing the islands I'd estimate i carted about
200 wheel barrows full of dirt to build up the rear embankment. Some of the
dirt was full of roots which allowed me to stack it almost like cinder blocks
and i was able to make the island edges pretty steep even on the one without
stone around it. i think i might have to wear hip waders so i can get out there
to string trim it or i might just use another plank. The "trees" are just
broken branches from larger trees i put there for birds to land on when they go
to the bird feeder (red). I briefly toyed with the idea of planting a tree out
there but that would jsut be more leaves falling in the water.
favorite books of the past year(in no particular order):
Running With Scissors - Augusten Burrows
The Corner- David Simon, Edward Burns
The Worthing Saga - Orson Scott Card
Stiff - Mary Roach
The Bonfire of the Vanities- Tom Wolfe
A Man In Full - Tom Wolfe
How To Talk To A Liberal - Ann Coultier
Slander - Ann Coultier
Cosmos - Carl Sagan
A Short History Of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
E=Mc2-David Bodanis
Bringing Down The House - Ben Mezrich
Positively Fifth Street - James McManus
Tally's Corner - Elliot Liebow
Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
Nightmares & Dreamscapes - Stephen King
On Writing - Stephen King
Hearts In Atlantis - Stephen King
The Brethren - John Grisham
The King of Torts - John Grisham
Let My People Go Surfing - Yvon Choinard
Punk's War - Ward Caroll
Masterpieces - Orson Scott Card, editor
St. Dale - Karen McCrumb
The 158 Pound Marriage - John Irving
The Cider House Rules - John Irving
Rock This! - Chris Rock
Schindler's List - Thomas Keneally
super nintendo, you're my new girlfriend
lucubration-laborious work, study, thought, etc., esp. at night.